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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ted Baron at a village in Palm Springs, CA, summer of 1954.

“For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s—she Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn’t photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.” — Richard Avedon about this portrait.

Screenland, October 1953

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) dir. Howard Hawks

Jean Harlow as Gladys Benton in  LIBELED LADY (1936) dir. Jack Conway

Marilyn Monroe on the set of the film "Some Like it Hot" in Los Angeles, California, 1958. Photo by Richard C. Miller.

Marilyn photographed by André de Dienes, Tobey Beach, Long Island, NY, July 1949.

Marilyn Monroe at a press conference, 1956.

Marilyn photographed by Joseph Hepner, 1950.

Marilyn Monroe, 1953.

By John Florea.